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{{Short description|Defunct provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada}}
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{{Infobox Canada electoral district
| name                =Strathcona West
| province            =Alberta
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| prov-status         =defunct
| prov-created        =1959
| prov-abolished      =1971
| prov-election-first =1959
| prov-election-last  =1967
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'''Strathcona West'''<ref>{{Cite ODNB |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/92006 |title=Strathcona and Mount Royal. |date=2004-09-23 |series=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/92006 }}</ref> was a [[Provinces and territories of Canada|provincial]] [[electoral district (Canada)|electoral district]] in [[Alberta]], Canada, mandated to return a single member to the [[Legislative Assembly of Alberta]] using the [[first past the post]] method of voting from 1959 to 1971.<ref>{{cite web |title=Election results for Strathcona West. |url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/year_result.php?Constit=Strathcona-West |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/2217/20101208183724/http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/year_result.php?Constit=Strathcona-West |url-status=dead |archive-date=8 December 2010 |website=abheritage.ca |publisher=Heritage Community Foundation |access-date=22 May 2020}}</ref>

==History==
The historic 1959 redistribution of the provincial ridings of [[Calgary (provincial electoral district)|Calgary]] and [[Edmonton (provincial electoral district)|Edmonton]] standardized the voting system back to [[First Past the Post]]. From 1926 to 1959, members in Calgary and Edmonton were elected by [[Single Transferable Vote]], while the rest of the province had the option of how to count ballots. The redistribution created nine ridings in Edmonton. The other eight ridings were [[Edmonton Centre (provincial electoral district)|Edmonton Centre]], [[Edmonton North (provincial electoral district)|Edmonton North]], [[Edmonton Norwood]], [[Edmonton North East (provincial electoral district)|Edmonton North East]], [[Edmonton-North West (provincial electoral district)|Edmonton North West]], [[Strathcona East]], [[Strathcona Centre]], and [[Jasper West]].

In 1971 the riding was split between [[Edmonton-Whitemud]] and [[Edmonton-Parkallen]].

===Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs)===
{{AbMLA/top|Members of the Legislative Assembly for Strathcona West}}
{{AbMLA/change|See [[Edmonton (provincial electoral district)|Edmonton electoral district]] from 1921-1959}}
{{AbMLA/row
  | FromYr       = 1959
  | ToYr         = 1963
  | Assembly#    = 14
  | AbParty      = Social Credit
  | RepName      = Randolph McKinnon
  | RepLink      = 
  | #ByElections = 
  | PartyTerms#  = 2
  | RepTerms#    = 2
  }}
{{AbMLA/row
  | FromYr       = 1963
  | ToYr         = 1967
  | Assembly#    = 15
  }}
{{AbMLA/row
  | FromYr       = 1967
  | ToYr         = 1971
  | Assembly#    = 16
  | AbParty      = PC
  | RepName      = Don Getty
  | RepLink      = 
  | #ByElections = 
  | PartyTerms#  = 1
  | RepTerms#    = 1
  }}
{{AbMLA/change|See [[Edmonton-Parkallen]] electoral district from 1971-1993<br/> and [[Edmonton-Whitemud]] electoral district from 1971-Present}}
{{AbMLA/end}}

==Election results==

===1959===
{{1959 Alberta general election/Strathcona West}}

===1963===
{{1963 Alberta general election/Strathcona West}}

===1967===
{{1967 Alberta general election/Strathcona West}}

== See also ==
* [[List of Alberta provincial electoral districts]]
* [[Canadian provincial electoral districts]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
*{{cite book |author1=Office of the Chief Electoral Officer |author2=Legislative Assembly Office |author2-link=Legislative Assembly of Alberta |author-link1=Elections Alberta |title=A Century of Democracy: Elections of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1905-2005 |date=2006 |publisher=Legislative Assembly of Alberta |series=The Centennial Series |location=Edmonton, AB |isbn=0-9689217-8-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/centennialseries04perr/mode/2up |access-date=25 May 2020}}

==External links==
*[http://www.electionsalberta.ab.ca/ Elections Alberta]
*[http://www.assembly.ab.ca/ The Legislative Assembly of Alberta]

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[[Category:Former provincial electoral districts of Alberta]]
[[Category:Politics of Edmonton]]